Thomas Mann Quotes

All big changes of the world come from words.

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.

Our words set the direction for our lives.

Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we can make real change that lasts.

Words have the power to change us.

Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.

Ideas are more powerful than people.

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Words are the small change of thought.

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

True change takes place in the imagination.

Ideas have consequences that can transform society.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we are at no loss to perceive that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind

By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book.

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

Your words can permanently influence a life.

Words are where most change begins.

Ideas do not need weapons.

One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.